Children with Learning Disabilities - PDF
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Children with Learning Disabilities - PDF
Added on 2021-06-16
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Children with learning disabilities 2Helping children with learning disabilitiesRichard D. Lavoie has worked as the head of residential programs for children withspecial needs since 1972. Based on his rich experience, Lavoie developed some criticalstrategies to assist in teaching social skills and friendship skills in the community, schools andthe family. The techniques begin by analyzing the causes and consequences of what he callssocial incompetence. The program offers tested advice on how to assist the children with socialproblems to deal with the daily social struggles. Implementing such an application to thechildren suffering social skill problems will get the child from being bullied, rejected, pickedupon to be friendly with all people and being accepted by the peers. Richard has used his videosto bring about some concepts and ideas that can be applied in a classroom setup to improve theskills of children with learning disabilities.Lack of excellent social skills or the social competence is one of the most significantchallenges both in our childhood and adulthood. The children with social problems are morelikely to have the same difficulties even when they are grownups. According to different studies,the kids with social issues are at a high risk suffering the learning disabilities. Their self-esteemis usually low. They feel unwanted and think everybody is against them because of one or theother reason. They will not want to socialize much, and they prefer to remain indoors or at homebecause that is the only castles that they feel comfortable.Richard has successively brought out his ideas and concepts to use in a classroom settingin different categories. The first one is timing and staging. Many kids do not realize almosteverything in the society must undergo a specific process for it to be successful. For instance,many kids will think you have to be their friend just because you set them in class. In this case,
Children with learning disabilities 3they do not understand that any strong friendship must develop and undergo every process ofgrowth. Many kids view association has a process instead of process. Some of them may eventhink you must become their friend because they want it. In case it doesn't work they hate youand think you are an enemy and their attitude towards you may last for so long.I recall when I was ten my parents moved to another town and therefore I had to changethe school. In my first few days, I seated next to this young boy mark who wanted me to be hisfriend. He was very proud to have a new friend in the school, but he never wanted me toassociate with others. It didn't work for long, and from then on he hated me with passion. Hemade sure everybody in the school was aware that we no longer friends.The timing and staging are critical in the life of the youth. Studies indicate that there is asignificant problem with the girls especially the teenagers with learning disabilities. They havedifficulty in determining and differentiating those who genuinely love them and those that don't.They don't realize that any romantic relationship must develop and grow in a process. If you tell"I girl, I love you, and I would like to marry you." They quickly are carried away by this kind ofwords because they don't understand everything is a process. Some years back I encountered one of my classmates who were very much stressed. Shespent most of her time alone and cried for more than three days. She was very reluctant to sharewith anyone what she was going through. I was a close friend to her for some time, and after alot of persistence, she decided to open up. She had found her boyfriend with another girl whomade her crazy. They had known each other for one week, and she ended up believing the youngman would marry her. She needed someone to be there talk to her about the issue which washelpful in her healing. If presented with such a situation in my practice of teaching the children
Children with learning disabilities 4with learning disabilities, I will move very first to help the student come to terms with what he/she is going through. I will have to conduct some one on one counseling session with the studentto help her in the shortest time possible. To avoid such incidences in the future, I will assess howthe rest of the student perceive the relationships and guide them in making informed decisions.Affective matchingAffective matching is the ability of an individual to get up to the occasion in everymanner. It is one of the social requirements for a person who is social to match his\her effectwith the environment and the people present for the occasion. For example, if you go to a placewhere people are mourning you should mourn with them, if people around you are sad youshould be sad and if the people are happy you should also be happy and enjoy with them. When I was in high school, one of our friends lost his dad. An arrangement was made forthe whole class to attend the funeral as a way of offering moral support to our friend. There wasa group of student who was not right in quality. They could do anything to avoid being in public.At the funeral, they went into their corner and started enjoying music without caring what wasgoing on. It was very strange, and everybody was wondering why they did that. They failed tomatch the effect of the day which was not good at all.It has been found that the children who cannot match the effect have a problem with theirsocial memory. Further, they experience difficulties with social prediction. They don't know howpeople are likely to perceive their general behavior in public. In case I am faced with such asituation I will psychologically prepare the student of how they are expected to behave to avoidsome embarrassing situations
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